College of Nursing Resources

Marquette University
Marquette University was established in 1881 and has been educating students to be leaders in their professional lives, their communities, and in society for more than 120 years.  Since the first graduating class of five men were awarded bachelor of arts degrees in the 1880s, Marquette has grown into a modern coed campus of more than 11,000 students who learn and grow through nationally admired undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional programs.  The campus encompasses approximately 80 acres, with 7,600 undergraduate students and 11,000 total students, including those enrolled in the dental, graduate, and law schools.  In 200, 187extramural a ards were granted, totaling nearly $19 million.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP).
Research endeavors at Marquette are overseen by the Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies.  The Marquette University ORSP, which reports to the Vice Provost, is staffed by an Executive Director, Director of Grants Administration, Director of Project Planning and Development, Contract Administrator and Director of Technology, Assistant Director of Grants Administration, Assistant Director of Project Planning and Development, a Grants Assistant, and an Office Coordinator.  The ORSP fosters excellence in sponsored projects by promoting best practices, policies, and procedures that ensure consistency and efficiency in transactions with sponsors and partners.  The ORSP also hosts a number of forums throughout the year to provide ongoing preparation of scholars on the Marquette University campus as well as opportunities for collaboration.  Grant accounts are administered and monitored by Marquette’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and the Office of the Comptroller.  These offices have extensive experience in administering awards, and currently administer nearly $19 million in grants and contracts.  All grants receive a unique account and no funds are commingled.  Internal controls have been established for accountability.   

Marquette University College of Nursing
Approximately 500 students are enrolled in the CCNE accredited undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs.  Graduate programs prepare nurses for advanced practice in: Midwifery, Children and Families, Adult Nursing, Acute Care Nursing, Older Adult Nursing, and Health Care Systems Leadership.  Advanced practice roles include nurse midwife, clinical nurse specialist, and nurse practitioner.  The PhD program prepares nurse scholars in dual roles, preparing them for both research and academic roles.  Examples of College initiatives are: establishing leadership roles in integrating academic and clinical practice activities; operating a nurse-managed clinic for disadvantaged clientele; delivering care and providing learning opportunities through Urban Partners for Healthy Children; performing leadership roles in international health with projects in the Republic of Georgia and in Kenya; actively engaging in the nursing redesign project; conducting health promotion activities within the University and the surrounding urban community; and offering continuing education programs.  The College has affiliations with more than 80 clinical agencies providing diverse contexts for learning.  Faculty members are actively engaged in research, training and development activities, generally generating more than $1 million in extramural funding annually.

The Marquette University College of Nursing has an Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Research who oversees research activities within the College.  An array of additional resources are available within the College of Nursing to support investigators.  Among them are two full-time research assistants who are available to unfunded faculty and faculty preparing research proposals.  In addition, there is a mentorship program for faculty to assist them in establishing a research trajectory and with proposal preparation and post award management.  Ongoing programs are offered to faculty to assist them with proposal development, design and measurement issues, and methodological approaches, to name a few.  In addition, there is editorial support for manuscript writing, and both internal and external proposal reviews are supported.

Laboratory

Heart Rate Variability Laboratory. This 700 square-foot laboratory includes a state of the art Mars 5000 Holter Ambulatory ECG and Analysis System (General Electric, Inc.). There are also 12 Series 8500 ambulatory tape Holter recorders and 8 SEER digital Holter recorders. This laboratory is located in the College of Nursing.

Telehealth Laboratory. This 900 square-foot laboratory is comprised of two rooms. One serves as a patient center with multiple patient stations and a Polycom videoconferencing station. The other room serves as practitioner station, with three computers serving as central nursing stations. There are three systems available for students to use for their educational experiences, as well as faculty to use for their research, manufactured by AMD, ViTel Net and American Telecare. All three systems offer videoconferencing, vital sign monitoring (temperature, weight, HR, BP), glucose monitoring and remote stethoscope. There is also a remote digital camera for wound assessment. All central station software is available and password protected.

Clinical
As appropriate.

Animal
As appropriate.

Computer
All offices are supplied with either Pentium 3 or 4 computers and have access to Internet2. PC computers have either Windows 2000 or Windows XP, with complete MS Office Professional Suites. A number of other software packages are also available to faculty including SPSS, N6 and Nvivo. There are more than 15 computer labs distributed across the campus, offering both PC and Mac options with a wide variety of installed software. There is a computer laboratory in the College of Nursing with 16 Pentium 4 computers. Marquette University has a well-staffed Information Technology Services Department and has assigned a technical support specialist to the College of Nursing.

Office
All faculty members have individual offices with computers, printers and telephone lines with voicemail. All funded research projects are housed in study offices dedicated to research activities.

Raynor Memorial Libraries
The John P. Raynor, S.J., Library and the adjoining Memorial Library serve faculty research needs with over 1.5 million volumes and an expanding collection of online research resources, including over 14,000 full-text online journals and over 225 electronic databases and journal indexes. Notable resources include Medline, CINAHL, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, SPORTDiscus, PsycINFO and ERIC. Raynor Library, which opened in August, 2003 contains a two-level Information Commons, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with more than 200 PCs, an Information Desk, Special Collections and Archives, all current periodicals, browsing and reference collections, an academic conference center, the Writing Center, the Center for Teaching and Learning, two classroom/labs, and a cafeteria. Memorial Library houses the bulk of the book and journal collections on six levels with private study carrels for faculty. The staff of 31 librarians and archivists specialize in reference services, instruction activities, particularly in core courses, and implementing technology in a wide array of services.

This state of the art library also offers wireless internet service throughout. In addition, more than 200 PCs offer PC and Mac platforms. Software available on library computers includes Internet Explorer and Netscape, Microsoft Office XP, Netscape Composer, Photoshop Elements, SPSS, CD Creator; Acrobat, FrontPage, GoLive, Illustrator and PageMaker; four Windows PCs, attached to scanners, also have Photoshop and Text Bridge OCR. All PCs have access to reference CD-ROM databases. Both color and monochrome laser printers are available.

Major Equipment
As appropriate.